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The only prince to tempt her
Author : Lucy Monroe
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 25,57 MB
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0008920400
The only prince to tempt her
Author : Lucy Monroe
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 34,4 MB
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0008914737
Reunited, claimed...crowned?
Author : Adam Hochschild
Publisher : Picador
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 44,67 MB
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1760785202
With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous colonization of this area, Leopold stole its rubber and ivory, pummelled its people and set up a ruthless regime that would reduce the population by half. . While he did all this, he carefully constructed an image of himself as a deeply feeling humanitarian. Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize in 1999, King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of this man’s brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. It is also the inspiring and deeply moving account of a handful of missionaries and other idealists who travelled to Africa and unwittingly found themselves in the middle of a gruesome holocaust. Instead of turning away, these brave few chose to stand up against Leopold. Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for this atrocity.
Author : Henry George
Publisher :
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 31,97 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Economics
ISBN :
Author : Martin Andrew Sharp Hume
Publisher : London, E. Grant Richards
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 47,19 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Queens
ISBN :
Author : Lydia Hoyt Farmer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 35,19 MB
Release : 2020-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3752401052
Reproduction of the original: The Boys' Book of Famous Rulers by Lydia Hoyt Farmer
Author : Robert Greene
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 50,85 MB
Release : 2010-09-03
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1847651402
Which sort of seducer could you be? Siren? Rake? Cold Coquette? Star? Comedian? Charismatic? Or Saint? This book will show you which. Charm, persuasion, the ability to create illusions: these are some of the many dazzling gifts of the Seducer, the compelling figure who is able to manipulate, mislead and give pleasure all at once. When raised to the level of art, seduction, an indirect and subtle form of power, has toppled empires, won elections and enslaved great minds. In this beautiful, sensually designed book, Greene unearths the two sides of seduction: the characters and the process. Discover who you, or your pursuer, most resembles. Learn, too, the pitfalls of the anti-Seducer. Immerse yourself in the twenty-four manoeuvres and strategies of the seductive process, the ritual by which a seducer gains mastery over their target. Understand how to 'Choose the Right Victim', 'Appear to Be an Object of Desire' and 'Confuse Desire and Reality'. In addition, Greene provides instruction on how to identify victims by type. Each fascinating character and each cunning tactic demonstrates a fundamental truth about who we are, and the targets we've become - or hope to win over. The Art of Seduction is an indispensable primer on the essence of one of history's greatest weapons and the ultimate power trip. From the internationally bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power, Mastery, and The 33 Strategies Of War.
Author : Max Simon Nordau
Publisher :
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 18,11 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 11,24 MB
Release : 1982
Category : France
ISBN :
Author : Shelley Bennett
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 12,91 MB
Release : 1999-09-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892365579
A Passion for Performance: Sarah Siddons and Her Portraitists brings together three engaging essays – by Robyn Asleson, Shelley Bennett and Mark Leonard, and Shearer West – that recreate the eventful life, both on and off the stage, of the great eighteenth-century actress Sarah Siddons. Siddons was renowned for her bravura performances in tragic roles, and her fame was enhanced by the many portraits of her painted by the leading artists of the day. The greatest of these was Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse, a painting now in the Huntington Art Collections and recently studied at the Getty Center. A Passion for Performance places this magnificent portrait within the context of Siddons’s career as an actress and cultural icon. Includes a chronology of Siddons’s life by volume editor Robyn Asleson.